Gates hits Obama war

WASHINGTON – Former US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has delivered a scathing critique of President Barack Obama’s handling of the war in Afghanistan in a revealing new memoir, media reported Tuesday.
In “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War,” Gates recounted how Obama appeared to lack faith in a war strategy he had approved and the commander he named to lead it, General David Petraeus, and did not like Afghan President Hamid Karzai, according to The New York Times and The Washington Post.

“As I sat there, I thought: The President doesn’t trust his commander, can’t stand Karzai, doesn’t believe in his own strategy, and doesn’t consider the war to be his,” Gates writes of a March 2011 meeting in the White House.